Urban Design
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Release: 40 Years of Changing Attitudes in Metro Vancouver
Metro Vancouver Urban Futures Survey 2012 Results Politicians, planners and policy makers can now be informed by forty years of comparative data on the...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Day to Night on the London Underground
Day to Night on one of the world’s biggest Metro Systems the London Underground. Some people think that it’s the most miserable place on earth, however if...
By Yuri Artibise -
Will Vancouver Replace a Freeway with a Stroad?
Vancouver’s freeway remnants are finally due for demolition. City staff like to draw comparisons to New York’s High Line and Seoul’s famous river...
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Densification, Development and Demolition: Heritage and the Three D’s
Dr. Jeff’s was a prominent Vancouver figure in the first decades of the 20th century. He was an Alderman, the City’s Police Commissioner and the City...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
A reluctant cyclist in Europe’s cycling capital – Part 2
Last Monday, I explored the the remarkable persistence of the Dutch cyclist in all types of weather, the Protestant roots of the culture, the impact of...
By Ren Thomas -
Video Vancouver: Urban Air
Urban Air is a wifi enabled green billboard that replaces advertising with living bamboo, water and climate monitoring technology.
By Caroline Toth -
SFU CIty Conversations: Where is Big TOO Big?—April 18, 2013
Vancouver has had periodic debates over heights of new buildings, first in downtown, then in some neighbourhoods like Mt. Pleasant. Successive councils...
By Yuri Artibise -
Wood Windows – Making the Case for Sustainability
It is a frequent occurrence in Vancouver. A van pulls up to an old house and within a few hours the house has new windows. It is as easy now to replace...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Video Vancouver: The STROAD
From Charles Marohn, Executive Director at Strong Towns. When you combine a street and a road, you get a STROAD, one of the most dangerous and...
By Yuri Artibise -
Facadism as a Heritage Strategy
Vancouver Heritage Foundation would like to thank our guest writer for this weeks article, Marta Farevaag, urban planner and Principal of PFS Studio...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
The Lulu Series: Vancouver Public Space Network, March 28, 2013
Good cities are defined by the quality of their public spaces. Whether these are lively public squares or plazas, parks, beaches, civic architecture or...
By Yuri Artibise -
Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge: a thoroughfare of song
It’s always refreshing when city planners see infrastructure projects not merely as utilitarian exercises, but also as opportunities to produce works of...
By Casey van Wensem